Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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University Calendar 1903 September 21 Beginning of Session November 2? Thanksgiving Recess December 17-23 -Fall Examinations December 24 to January 1 Christmas Recess 1904 February 1 Beginning of Spring Term March 24-28 Spring Examinations April 16 Field Day May 2 May Picnic May 20 to June 4 Final Examinations June 5-8 Commencement Exorcises

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A Sketch of Furman University. Furman University, like all other terrestrial things is a product of the times. Its history can be divided into the periods which chequered the history of our government and of our state. While its creation was due to pious men and its management has been under religious auspices, the history of the school has answered largely to the spirit of the times. The efforts to raise endowments were failures in periods of short crops or panics: they were always partially or wholly successful in prosperous periods and good crop years. Prior to 1852. Furman University was in the stago of development. About 75 years of educational agitation preceded the first small effort in education under the convention's trustees. Oliver Hart about 1751 began the agitation ar.d Richard Furman succeeded him in the work but did not live to see the inception of the School at Edgefield in 1827. The beginning of things is never disclosed to mortal eyes, but for our purposes. our religious school work began with Oliver Hart and was carried on in succession by Richard Furman. Basil Manly. Sr.. William B. Johnson. Jas. C. Furman. Charles Manly. A. P. Montague. C. H. Jud-son and E. M. Potcat. as leaders. The Furman Theological Academy was removed from Edgefield after a two years' trial, to the High Hills of Santee and therein December. 18S4.it was suspended for two years. It reoponed near Winns-borough and continued growing in importance until its evolution into a university. Besides the regular college courses. Furman opened with a theological course and both Law and Medicine were to be added later. The present main building was erected in the early fifties but the plan of the building called for a higher tower on the east of the building with a duplicate of the mathematics room and the part of the building west of it. This is the fiftieth year since the building was finished ar.d its composite features have 6tood the blasts of winter and the heats of summer. It has wonderfully resisted the tooth of time and the knife of the thoughtless student. On April 2nd. 1865. I was walking for tho first time down Main Street through the dilapidated village of Greenville. It was a bright beautiful morning, such as is not unfrequently seen in April and October in this Piedmont region. A Presbyternn friend, pointing across the river, said: There is tho Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. There it stood towering above and peering through the dark green foliage, and glistening in peaceful repose in the early morning sunshine. The Confederacy was dying. Our hopes were expiring and gloom as to our future was settling so deep that it could be felt. The contrast between my own boyish subjectivity and that seronc. contemplative picture, as if it were tho abode of fairies, left a deep impression, which has not faded after the same building has been seen for 33 years from every angle of vision. Dr. Furman was the main pillar on which Furman rested in the post bellum days. No narrator of his silent self-denials has stood forth, but his part in Furman's history will always be one of those silent un- 10